Chapter Ninety-Seven: Stratagem Xu Rong
And the so-called "waiting for the fighter", this fighter, naturally refers to the time when Dong Zhuobing was "tired of war and thinking of returning".
Now the Son of Heaven has just moved westward, Dong Zhuo is sitting in Luoyang, and it is scattered wealth, and it is digging graves, and rewarding women, under the inspiration of wealth and beauty, the fighting spirit of Dong Jun is still high, but Luoyang has been burned to ruins after all, and the residents inside and outside the city have also been forced to migrate to Chang'an. They will definitely not be able to wait long in this rarely populated ruin, and they will have the intention of returning, and as long as they have the intention of returning, this battle will be easy to fight. In the final analysis, fighting a war is about morale and people's hearts.
The officers and soldiers of the Dong army all want to leave Luoyang, and they don't want to stay here, that is, no matter how many people they have, no matter how refined the equipment is, no matter how strong their combat power is, once the people's hearts are gone, there is no morale, that is, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu brothers and the sour jujube coalition still refuse to fight, only Wen Chou and Sun Jian are two people, Wen Chou and Wen Chou also have a certain degree of certainty to defeat them and win.
In fact, in the original history, why after Cao Cao, Bao Xin, and Sun Jian were defeated one after another, Sun Jian was able to defeat and regain victory, and even rushed to seize the opportunity to drive straight in, and further defeated Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo one after another, and finally entered Luoyang, achieving the reputation of loyalty and martyrdom praised by future generations. It must be difficult to enter Luoyang by half a step, you know. Even after Dong Zhuo's death, Na Liang and the group were still strong, and they also controlled the court and disturbed the world for a long time, which shows their strength.
Sun Jian's victory was not due to manpower, but to the current situation. Manpower is sometimes poor. The times are irreversible. Asking for Dong is a current situation, and he can take the opportunity to raise troops; Dong Bing's return is also a current situation, and he can use this name to suppress the princes; After the discussion of Dong, it is also a current situation to compete with each other, and it can be used to seize territory; But what about after that? Wen Chou thought that it was time for him to create the current situation.
You can't always adapt to the times. There are many heroes who adapt to the times, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Zhang Miao, Qiao Mao, Liu Dai and so on, including all kinds of people who later divided various places, etc., they can all be said to conform to the times, if they want to stand out from so many of them, they have to recreate the current situation, only to create a new situation that is beneficial to themselves, with the help of its mighty momentum, no one can disobey the momentum. That is, the so-called "general trend of the world", which can also be called the "humanitarian mandate". In order to take the world lightly and recreate the world.
But how should he create this situation? He doesn't have a clue yet.
Retracting his thoughts and focusing his attention on the present, Wen Chou heard Tian Chou say to him: "Lord, although our army is temporarily returning to Yingchuan. In my humble opinion, it seems that it is best not to sit and wait for the plane, and take precautions. Let's be idle for a while. ”
And the so-called idleness is just a discordant plan for Xu Rong, sending some letters, playthings, items, etc. to Xu Rong. And there is a reason why Xu Rong was chosen.
This is because there are many Liangzhou people in Dong Zhuo's army, Xu Rong is the only important general who is not from Liangzhou, and his position in Dong Zhuo's army is already embarrassing, and many Liangzhou soldiers regard him as an outsider and exclude him from the circle.
Nowadays, when ugly letters and gifts often arrive, it is inevitable that some people will mutter, and even more so someone will tell Dong Zhuo.
Xu Rong took the letter written by Wen Chou, sat alone in the tent, read it for a long time, and finally had no choice, sighed, and said to himself: "Wenwu Meng, Wen Wu Meng, you are forcing me." Knowing Wen Chou's intentions, he had no choice but to call the guards and order him to send all the letters written by Wen Chou to Luoyang and present them to Dong Zhuo, hoping to dispel Dong Zhuo's suspicions and prove his innocence.
Dong Zhuo first received a secret report, and then received a letter from Xu Rong sent by Wen Chou, which was shown to the generals on the left and right to watch.
After the generals looked at it, some people sneered and said: "This is a divisive plan! The ugly child is clumsy! Do you want to mess with our army? Amusing. ”
Dong Zhuo thought so and nodded.
Someone else said, "But you must not be unguarded." Xu Rong is not from Liangzhou, and he is not the same as me, if he really goes to Wen Chou's side, it will also be a trouble. Said to Dong Zhuo, "Xiangguo should prepare early, just in case." ”
The person who spoke before disagreed, and said: "Although General Xu is not from Liangzhou, he has been from Xiangguo for many years, and has been promoted by Xiangguo for many years, and he is loyal. In addition, although the soldiers and horses in Shandong are prosperous, they have different intentions, the Yuan brothers and the sour jujube are not enough to mention, only Wenchou, Sun Jian, Cao Cao and others dare to fight, and they are all defeated, they will definitely not be able to win this battle, this is well known, how could General Xu not see the situation clearly, and defect at this time? …… Isn't that a self-defeating end? ”
Dong Zhuo said: "Yes, Xu Rong has always been loyal and will never betray me, this is just a discordant plan of Wen Chou'er." ”
But another person said: "Xiangguo, there will be something in the end, I don't know whether to talk about it or not?" ”
Dong Zhuoyan said: "You say." ”
The man said: "Xiangguo knows, my brother is in Xu Rong's army for the army, at the end of last year, I listened to him, said that Xu Rong complained after getting drunk, said that over the years for Xiangguo to be born and died, rebelling against Qiang, leveling the yellow scarf, striking Han Sui, etc., several times almost died, and still fearless in danger, every war is willing to be the vanguard, Xiangguo accounted for the generals, he should be the first, but Xiangguo rewarded this time, but only let him be the general, he seems to be quite uneven. ”
Dong Zhuohu asked: "Is there such a thing?" ”
"That's true. …… In addition, I heard another thing from my brother. ”
"What's the matter?"
"A few days ago, after Xu Rong defeated Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, and Bao Xin, he boasted in the tent, saying and saying ......."
"What did he say?"
"Please don't be angry, the last general will dare to speak."
"I'm not angry, you can say it."
"He boasted that all the generals in the Xiangguo account were mediocre people, and if there was no him, then Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, and Bao Xin would have entered Luoyang long ago."
Dong Zhuo heard this, but he still didn't believe it, and said: "Xu Rong has been working hard from me for many years, how could he say such things? Even if it is true, it is only a drunken statement, and it cannot be taken seriously. "Stop talking about it. (To be continued.) )